1Z wrote: > > Brent Meeker wrote: > > >>You misunderstand "population models". It's not a question of what members >>of a species think or >>vote for; it's a matter of whether their logic will lead to their survival in >>the evolutionary >>biological sense. So the majority can be wrong. > > > Cooper is making valid comments about *something*, but it isn't logic. > Logic is what tells us the majority can be wrong
Cooper is not talking about logic in the formal sense; he's talking about reasoning, making decisions, acting. This can be "wrong" in the sense that there is a better (in terms of survival) way of reasoning. I'm not sure that logic in the formal sense can be right or wrong; it's a set of conventions about language and inference. About the only standard I've seen by which a logic or mathematical system could be called "wrong" is it if it is inconsistent, i.e. the axioms and rules of inference allow everything to be a theorem. Brent Meeker --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
